Aspirations, Education and Social Justice

Caroline Sarojini Hart is Senior Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and Affiliated Lecturer in Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

• Introduction1. Education Policy Issues2. Sen's Capability Approach3. Blending Sen and Bourdieu4. Evolving Theory into Method5. The Nature of Aspirations6. The Genesis of Capabilities7. Aspirations, Capabilities and Choice8. The Promise of Higher Education9. The New Pursuit of JusticeBibliographyIndex

In Aspirations, Education and Social Justice: Applying Sen and Bourdieu, Caroline Sarojini Hart provides a new and innovative approach to understand how aspirations are developed and realized ... The strongest parts of the book are the chapters where Hart unfolds the impressive data set she produced through the Bradford and Sheffield studies. Especially, the insightful, thoughtful, and often witty interview extracts are introduced eloquently, and ... illustrate Hart’s eminence in conducting interviews ... Aspirations, Education and Social Justice: Applying Sen and Bourdieu is a well-written and well-researched book that introduces a new approach to evaluate the ways in which students build aspirations and how they transform aspirations into decisions ... The book is therefore highly recommended for scholars interested in Sen’s capability approach and for policy-makers involved in the education sector.